Wire frame.



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APPLICATION F|LED.ULY29,1916.

Patented May 6, l919.

WLM/wo cio UNITED sTATEs L, qui:

JESSE J. WILLIAMS, 0F UTICA, NEW YORK.

WIRE FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1919.q

Application filed July 29, 1916. Serial No. 112,079.

To all LU/tom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, J EssE J AMES` WILLIAMs, .residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to Wire frame structures, such, for instance, as are employed as the foundation for floral designs.

These frames or foundations are usually made up of a number of wires shaped to the desired design, and being connected together s0 as to form what is intended to be a rigid structure. The connections where one wire engages and intersects another, have heretofore been made by the use of separately formed tie-wires, said tie-wires simply spiral ing along the main wires and about the intersecting portions. This manner of securing the main wires together is of course tedious and, at best, does not result in as substantial and rigid a structure as is desirable.

The object of the present invention, therefore, is to provide a frame wherein the main wires are secured together in immovable relation to each other, so as to form a rigid 4structure, and, further, to provide a frame wherein the use of tie-wires is entirely avoided.

@ther objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles, constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of embodiment of the invention:

The figure is a view in perspective of a frame constructed in accordance with the provisions of this invention.

Referring to the drawing, the reference numeral 1 denotes generally a frame formed of four wires indicated at 2, 3, 4 and 5, said Gopies of this patent may be obtained for frame being held together by brace wires 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. The end brace wires 6 and 10 extending completely around the ends of the wires; said frame being elongated and rectangular in cross-section. The reference numeral 1l denotes another elongated frame formed by the wires 12, 13, 111 and 15. This frame is also provided with brace wires indicated at 16, 17, 18 and 19. Frame 11 is extended through frame 1 so as to form a conventional cross. The wires of the respective frames where they cross each other are weldmed together preferably by electrical heat, that is, they are electrically welded together. It will be noted that the adjacent portions of the outlyinowires serve as braces for the respective outlying wires of the respective frames.

It will be apparent that in the welding operations the adjacent portions of the parts welded become merged into each other, and in efect become as integral parts of each other so that no possible movement of one relatively to the other may occur.

A frame constructed in this manner is cheap to manufacture, and possesses all of the virtues of the tied together frame, and none of its shortcomings. The parts are perfectly rigid, and are permanent in their rela'- tions to each other.

It will be understood, of course, that the construction shown is susceptible of variation within the scope of the claim.

l claim- A tlorists form comprising a pair of frames rectangular in cross section, each frame comprising outline wires and brace wires, one of said frames being disposed within the other and at right angles thereto, the adjacent p0rtions of the outline wires serving as braces for the respective outline wires of the .respective frames.

In testimony whereof I have aiiixed my name in the presence of two Witnesses:

JESSE J. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

L. Gassrom) HANDY, THEnEsA CooK.

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